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Top 5 Big Data Integration Requirements

Today, the term “big data” dominates the headlines, and talk of the “three V’s” (volume, velocity and variety) is ubiquitous. Meanwhile, the vast majority of organizations still struggle to integrate and transform terabytes, if not gigabytes, of data. The era of big data will only exacerbate this problem. This podcast examines the challenge of dealing with the integration of big data, and the unique issues raised by it that impact on extract, transform, load (ETL) functions, including:

Types of big data

The emergence of multiple analytical platforms

Challenges imposed by large data volumes across the big data analytical ecosystem

Speaker

Mike Ferguson
Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an independent analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence, data management and enterprise business integration. With over 30 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world, and written numerous articles. Mike is also a resident expert on the B-EYE-Network, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry.